Transatlantic

Transatlantic. Memory politics and transmissions of the past. Reflections on the international dissemination of memorial and heritage themes

Resulting from a preparatory project in 2014, “Transatlantic” proposes to develop a network of collaborations between French and Latin American partners (notably the Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria) around the politics of memory, heritage activities, and ordinary relationships with the past. It hypothesizes that the “globalization of memory” does not take into account the diverse contextualities, causes and effects of traumatic pasts, nor the local dynamics of the past.
The collaborating teams intend to: (a) study the spaces of memory and the mechanisms of mediating history, particularly museums; (b) explore the archives of dictatorships, their production, their legal framework, and their judicial uses, while spurring; and (c) empower the creation of oral archives; and (c) to study the vectors of transmitting ssion and the internationally disseminating diffusion of concepts, mechanisms, and actors.
The project features the research of several doctoral students already embedded in other cluster projects on these themes (notably Arnaud Figari, Julie Lavielle, Malena Bastias).

Associated partners

Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria
Comisión Provincial por la Memoria de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Historical Archives of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Project managers

Sandrine LEFRANC , Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, UMR 7220

Claudia FELD , CONICET, Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria, IDES, Buenos Aires

Internal cluster partners

• Institute for Social Sciences of Politics (ISP) - UMR 7220
• La contemporaine | library, archives, museum of contemporary societies

Associated partners

Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria
http://memoria.ides.org.ar/

Comisión Provincial por la Memoria de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
http://www.comisionporlamemoria.org/

Archives historiques de la Province de Buenos Aires

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